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en-usPenn State University Relationsnews@psu.edu (Penn State News)Building on Naturehttp://news.psu.edu/story/141804/2009/01/12/research/building-nature
Scientists and inventors have often been inspired by the changing designs of nature. “For over a billion years,” Akhlesh Lakhtakia says, “many structures have evolved to display interesting and useful properties. This is an idea we humans should exploit.”
http://news.psu.edu/story/141804/2009/01/12/research/building-natureMon, 12 Jan 2009 (All day) -0500Penn State News - wingsUp in the Airhttp://news.psu.edu/story/140874/1999/09/01/research/air
"Flying seems such an impossibly difficult task," Pat Shipman writes in her newest book, Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight. We humans, despite long centuries of frequently disastrous obsession with getting airborne, have only recently mastered the feat, and then only with a big boost from technology.
http://news.psu.edu/story/140874/1999/09/01/research/airWed, 01 Sep 1999 (All day) -0400Penn State News - wingsSkimmers or Fliershttp://news.psu.edu/story/140871/1998/09/01/research/skimmers-or-fliers
The first phase began with a jar of specimens from the Smithsonian. Submerged in alcohol, the stoneflies were suspended eerily in cotton stoppered vials. The mottled brown insects ranged from puny little quarter inchers that hardly seemed to merit the lengthy scientific names recorded on the outside of their vials to whopping behemoths that threatened to push the alcohol soaked cotton wads clear out.
http://news.psu.edu/story/140871/1998/09/01/research/skimmers-or-fliersTue, 01 Sep 1998 (All day) -0400Penn State News - wings